A new framework for teachers? professional development

Sancar R., Atal D., Deryakulu D.

TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION, cilt.101, 2021 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 101
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.tate.2021.103305
  • Dergi Adı: TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Psycinfo, Public Affairs Index
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Teacher education, Teaching profession, Professional development, Professional development components, DEVELOPMENT NEEDS, EDUCATORS, MATHEMATICS, COMMUNITY, QUALITY, IMPACT, WORK, NETWORKS, PROGRAM, LESSONS
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Teachers' professional development (PD) is crucial to improving student outcomes. Because PD involves a multidimensional structure and changes across a teacher's professional life, defining PD is complicated, and existing studies fail to meaningfully define it. To offer a working framework for optimal PD, we reviewed existing articles on the subject in four key journals in teacher education. We found that effective PD is attentive to assessment, research scale, duration, comprehensiveness, dissemination, context, support and control, and collaboration. We situate this conceptual framework as a new take on pre-existing definitions of PD that advises how to more effectively apply PD. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.